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UrduThe Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system.
Tag: Rainforest
Climate Change-Induced Drought May Transform Parts of the Amazon’s Rainforests Into Savannas
A portion of Amazonian lowland rainforest – areas critical to absorbing carbon dioxide and buffering climate change – may morph over time into dry, grassy savannas, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Math Model Shows Climate Change Puts Rainforest Animal’s Survival in Jeopardy
A South American marsupial with ties to an ancient line of animals may go extinct in the next half-century due to warming temperatures. Researchers from the Universidad Austral de Chile will present a mathematical model of the monito del monte’s survival predictions this week at the American Physiological Society (APS) Intersociety Meeting in Comparative Physiology: From Organism to Omics in an Uncertain World conference in San Diego.
Pharmacy in the Jungle Study Reveals Indigenous People’s Choice of Medicinal Plants
In one of the most diverse studies of the non-random medicinal plants selection by gender, age and exposure to outside influences from working with ecotourism projects, researchers worked with the Kichwa communities of Chichico Rumi and Kamak Maki in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They discovered a novel method to uncover the intracultural heterogeneity of traditional knowledge while testing the non-random selection of medicinal plants and exploring overuse and underuse of medicinal plant families in these communities.